Haha almost fooled me, you do not read.

Psychologically, it's the lack of comfortable living that incentivizes the advances in the first place. Whenever a point of comfort is reached, it no longer cost effective to innovate and produce more infrastructure.

Nature always has a way of balancing out what we have and what we need. When European cities were crammed with people living in dirty cities, that was a perfect breeding ground for bubonic plague to come and trim our numbers. In the post-plague era, when the population was low and there were more resources to go around, the humans in that area were primed to have The Renaissance.

This post was edited by kayeto on May 22 2016 08:38am

4 walls = privacy

Or.. you can call this planet a giant house and we already have no privacy according to you.

If there was no struggle, the stories wouldn't be interesting. That's probably a big motivation.
Who knows where human decency will go with the development of technology, though.
If we control ourselves and use it properly, we'll be fine. However, that is not the pattern exhibited by those with power, so I wouldn't hope too much for that future.

...you fail to see the image that the writer of the book tries to show you that the humans will die soon....

This post was edited by Texerox2013 on May 22 2016 09:15am

Yes because those with power obviously were born blessed by god with a secret gift.

...justice demands a sequel....